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How We Know It's True
We don't publish what we can't verify.
Most food information online is opinion, marketing, or a confident guess. Every fact in Foodgeist earns its place: sourced, science-checked, and cleared by an audit built to disprove it.
Verified Pass Rate
99.8%
100
The rest are held, flagged, or rejected. Never quietly published.
3.5M+
source-cited entries
growing every day
68+
open science sources
authoritative, citable
7
connected layers
one graph, not silos
0
unsourced claims
no source, no ship
One Graph, Seven Layers
Everyone else has silos. We have one connected graph.
A flavor list here, a nutrition table there, a recipe site somewhere else. In Foodgeist a single ingredient links to its chemistry, taste, aroma, health evidence, and origin. All cross-verified, in one place.
7 layers · one graph · each independently sourced, cross-linked to the rest
Why This Is Hard To Copy
Anyone can publish a food fact. Almost no one verifies one.
The value is not any single fact. It is the trust that every fact has been checked, the breadth of how they connect, and a quality bar that compounds the longer the system runs.
Four Things We Promise
The rules every entry obeys
Sourced, or it doesn’t ship
Every claim traces back to an authoritative, citable source. No source, no publication. There is no "trust us" in Foodgeist.
Checked against the science
Temperatures, compounds, reactions, and origins are cross-checked against peer-reviewed literature before anything is accepted.
Independently audited
A final review must approve every entry. It is built to find what is wrong, not to rubber-stamp. Its decision is final.
Honest about uncertainty
A measurement is shown as a measurement; a prediction is labeled as a prediction. We never dress up an estimate as a fact.
What We Refuse To Do
Publish a claim with no traceable source.
Present a guess as if it were measured data.
Invent compounds, temperatures, or cultural history.
Let pseudo-science or known-fake patterns through.
Ship an entry with unresolved contradictions.
Built On Published Science
Nothing here is invented by a machine. Where the science gives a prediction rather than a measurement, we label it plainly, so you always know what is established and what is estimated.
Flavor compound dataproprietaryGC-MS + GC-O analysis; count not disclosed211,085 (Foodgeist)
Cooking technique graphno·
Consumer accessB2B only — Michelin-star chef tool·
Public APIno — closed B2B platform·
Open sourceno·
Trend layer
Foodgeist, Full Stat Sheet
Total entities3,504,152
Techniques11,599
Recipes2,392,901
Ingredients331,370
Industrial processes7,135
Mechanistic food-science facts31,070
Research papers indexed245,558
Flavor compounds211,085
Food-compound links1,930,306
Molecular pairings
The Verdict
Foodgeist already leads the field on verification rigor, embedded trend layer, update cadence, and grounded conversational interface. Scale continues to grow daily, with 68+ authoritative sources ingested continuously, every entity mapped to molecular evidence and source provenance.
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Their Weakness · Tabular. No technique data. No taste, aroma, culture, or recipes.
yes — open REST API
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Open sourceyes — AGPL + ODbL data·
Their Weakness · Packaged-food only. Crowd quality varies widely. No cooking knowledge, technique graph, or trend signal.
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Verified technique graphno·
Consumer accessno — enterprise only·
Open API for indie devsno·
Open sourceno·
Their Weakness · Enterprise-only walled garden. Trend signals only — no technique graph, no molecular layer, no cooking science.
yes — MediaWiki REST API
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Open sourceyes — CC-BY-SA·
Their Weakness · Vast but unstructured prose. No technique graph, no molecular layer, no confidence tiers.
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Open consumer accessno — enterprise only·
Public APIno — closed enterprise platform·
Open sourceno·
Recipe layerno2,392,901 (Foodgeist)
Their Weakness · Sensory/CPG testing only — no cooking techniques, no recipe graph, no molecular food science. Enterprise-only with no public API.
no
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Update cadencenot disclosed·
Their Weakness · Proprietary flavor-pairing only. No technique graph, no trend layer, no consumer API, no verified nutrition.
283,650
Receptor binding records34,225
Disease associations98,422
Biochemical reactions71,435
Predicted odor descriptors1,804,120
Learned flavor pairings736,044
Principal Food Map nodes (ingredient + compound)8,584